Disclaimer: Okay, of course the idea is Freaky Friday the movie, and this is an answer to a challenge by babyj23. Just read on… also, don't own OTH.
Messed
"Okay, lets try that over again," Jake said. He was standing in Haley's garage, with his electric guitar while Lucas sat being the drum set, Haley on the bass and singing along with Jake.
"Seriously, we need to get that chorus right," Haley said. Lucas nodded.
"Okay, so you want to try it from the beginning, or just that chorus?" Lucas asked. Haley shrugged.
"Your call."
"Alright, lets go over it from the top," Lucas said. Jake and Haley nodded and waited for Lucas to strike up the song with the drum part.
Haley and Jake came in with their parts, Jake going crazy on his guitar as well as Haley on the bass. Their style of music was completely rock, nothing less than the best.
"I'm so misunderstood
feel like I'm living under a hood
no one sees me for what I really am
no one cares if I fall, they don't lend me a hand," Haley sang the first few lines when Lucas stopped them.
"We need to work on the beat there."
"Yeah, it's off. Let go over that last line once or twice," Jake suggested.
"Okay, so its no one cares if I fall, they don't lend me a hand… How am I supposed say that?"
"4/4 time, Okay on the first beat, cares on the third. They on first and me on third," Lucas said. She nodded.
"Okay, lets try this again."
That night Lucas and Haley sat in a small diner just outside of Tree Hill. Aside from the band nothing had gone right in their relationship since before Lucas' crash. They were hoping to bond again and resolve their differences. Both wanted to rekindle the bond they'd once had.
"So, we should probably talk about why we're here," Haley said. They had been skirting around certain topics for the past hour and Haley was getting tired of it. Luke took a sip of his coke and nodded.
"Go ahead, I know there are some things you've been avoiding since the night of my accident," Lucas said. He silently braced himself, hoping this would be conducted calmly.
"Have you broken up with Brooke yet?" Haley asked point blank.
"No."
"Does she know about you and Peyton?"
"No," he said, trying to stay calm. Haley nodded.
"You know how I feel about that," she said. He nodded.
"You've made that very clear. I don't like it either, but it's an unavoidable situation right now," Haley rolled her eyes.
"That's bullsht. Brooke deserves so much better than that. She may be slutty but she would never cheat on you," Haley said spitefully.
"Don't call her slutty, Haley. She's never done anything to you," Lucas said protectively.
"It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see that she's been around the block, Scott."
"It also doesn't take a rocket scientist to see that you haven't liked her since you first met her."
"It doesn't matter whether or not I like her, what your doing to her is wrong, and obviously unlike you I have compassion."
"Oh get off it, Haley. You of all people should not be talking about compassion."
"Oh? Why not?"
"Because you're still with that son of a bitch I call my half brother," Lucas said spitefully. Haley shook her head with a rueful laugh.
"How can you still say that about him? He was the first person you saw when you woke up from your coma. He was there for you," Haley shouted.
"Yeah, he was there so that he could get you back and use you against me again."
"Stop saying those things about him. You don't know anything about him. Besides, if anyone's being used it's Brooke, for your strange fantasies. She deserves better, and from someone I used to consider a friend I think I deserve better from you as well."
"You deserve better? Haley, you've done nothing but judge me ever since I first mentioned Brooke to you. You need to grow up and stop thinking about yourself," Lucas yelled.
"Stop thinking about myself? The only reason I started tutoring Nathan was for you," Haley yelled.
"And now your kissing him. Are you sleeping with him for me too, Haley?" Haley bolted from her seat and began walking determinedly out of the diner.
"Oh, so now your just going to leave, run away from your problems in true Haley James fashion," Lucas said, walking after her.
"I'm not running, I'm walking. And I don't really care what you think about me or Nathan. It doesn't concern you," she said. She pushed open the glass door and slammed it shut in Lucas face, who opened it again and ran to catch up with her.
"You used to care what I thought, why not now?" Lucas asked, walking along with her.
"Because you gone and turned into some playboy jackass with a chip on his shoulder and different girl in his bed every night," Haley said. She spun around and stopped short, looking into the face of her old vest friend.
"I'm not like that, Haley. You know that."
"You could have fooled anyone Luke. You're acting like you don't give a damn about what anyone thinks."
"You know that's not true."
"Isn't it? You've been playing everyone, Lucas. You're even playing yourself for God sake!"
"Nothing I do is your business, Haley. Stay out of it," Lucas said, raising his voice again.
"Fine, I will. Just don't come to me when Brooke realizes that you've been banging her best friend behind her back," Haley shouted. Neither notice an old woman come out of the restaurant they had stopped in front of. She walked up to the pair and tapped Haley on the shoulder, pulling her attention away from Lucas.
"What?" she snapped. The old woman looked startled. "Sorry," Haley said. Lucas rolled his eyes.
"It's not really a good time, Ma'am," Lucas said. The old woman pushed a tray filled with little fortune cookies in between them.
"No thanks," Haley said. Lucas shook his head.
"Take one," insisted to old woman in a heavy Chinese accent.
"No thank you," Lucas said, more adamantly than Haley had.
"Please," said the woman. Haley rolled her eyes and grabbed one off the tray, Lucas did the same and they waited for the woman to retreat back inside before speaking again.
"I'm going home," Lucas said in monotone. Haley nodded and clenched her teeth as she watched him walk away. Once he'd turned a corner she realized she still had the fortune cookie in her hand. She cracked open the cookie and eat the shell, then walked into the light to read the message.
Lucas walked around the corner and leaned back against the stone wall to calm himself. It was then he realized he still had the small misshapen cookie in his hand. He cracked it open and through away the crusty shell and walked underneath a streetlamp to read the inscription.
"When you least understand you're places will change until the misunderstood is changed," Haley and Lucas said in unison.
"Stupid," Haley said under her breath. She shoved the piece of paper in her left jeans pocket and began off in the opposite direction that Lucas had gone in.
"Whatever," Lucas said. He crumpled the paper and threw it down onto the ground.
He just started to walk away when the ground began to fiercely tremble. Lucas braced himself on the wall and sheltered his head as branches fell off trees around him.
Haley stopped suddenly as the ground beneath her began to tremor. She huddle down beneath a park bench until the shaking stopped, then pulled herself out and looked around. Almost immediately her thoughts turned to Lucas.
"Luke," she yelled. She bounded back in the direction she'd come from, nearing running directly into Lucas as she turned a corner.
"God, Haley are you okay?" Lucas asked. She nodded.
"Are you?"
"Yeah, I'm fine," he said. He looked around, to survey the damage but there was none.
"What the hell?" he asked. Haley shook her head.
"It doesn't make sense," she said. He shrugged and turned around again.
"I'm going to head home. Bye, Haley," he said. Again anger filled her at the things he'd said earlier about Nathan and herself. She took a deep breath and turned in the other direction.
"Bye," she said.
Haley went to Nathan's house. Once she got there he invited her in, and they later fell asleep together in his bed.
Lucas went home, but was surprised to find Brooke sitting on his doorstep when he got there. He invited her in and like usual, ended up sleeping together. They fell asleep together in Lucas bed.
The following morning Lucas woke up with the sun. He felt an arm draped over his stomach.
"Mm, Brooke," he said. His eyes shot open at the sound of his voice…well, it was more like Haley's voice. He looked around and realized the arm on him in fact belonged to a sleeping Nathan. Lucas jumped out of bed and ran toward the door, but his reflection caught his attention in Nathan's mirror. It wasn't his reflection though, it was Haley's.
"Hales, come back to bed," came the groggy voice of Nathan. Lucas spun around.
"No, I'm think I should go home… uh… to Lucas' house," he said. Nathan sat up and shook his head.
"Why?" he asked confusedly.
"Umm, well… darling," he said. Nathan laughed lightly. "What?"
"Did you just call me darling?" Nathan asked. He got out of bed and walked over to where Lucas/Haley was standing. He tried to snake his hands around Haley's body, but it moved quickly out of his way.
"What are you doing?" he asked.
"Uhh, I just really need to get out of here," Lucas said, trying to sound like Haley.
"Why. Are you okay?" Nathan asked. Lucas bolted out of the room with Nathan following closely.
"I'm just not myself," Lucas said. Nathan looked utterly and completely confused.
"Then why do you need to see Lucas?"
"Because I just do," he said, pulling on Haley's shoes.
"Umm, Okay, I'll call you later," Nathan said. Lucas shook Haley's head.
"No, I'll uh… I'll get Haley… umm… I'll call you later . Yeah, bye man," Lucas said. Nathan grabbed Haley's arm.
"Did you just call me man?" He asked.
"Umm… yes… yes I did. By accident," Lucas said. Nathan shook his head with a rueful laugh.
"You sound more like Lucas every day, it's really scary," he said. Lucas laughed lightly and bolted out the door, leaving Nathan beyond scared and confused.
Haley woke up slowly as the sun penetrated her sleep. She groaned and sat up lightly, taking in her surroundings.
"Why am I at Luke's?" she thought to herself. "Oh god, did Nathan get me drunk?"
She pulled herself out of Lucas' bed and stretched, but caught a chill. She pulled her arms around her middle, feeling nothing but skin. She looked down and stifled a scream.
"Oh my god!" she said quietly. She ran over to the mirror and saw Lucas staring back at her, completely naked. She scrambled around the room to find her clothes… his clothes. She pulled them on quickly.
"Lucas?" came a female voice from the bed. Haley snapped her head up and looked into the face of a half naked Brooke.
"Brooke?" she asked. She was scared at the sound of Lucas' voice coming from her.
"Come back to bed, gorgeous. It's like six," Brooke said. Haley shook Lucas' head.
"No, umm… I need you to go," she said. Brooke gave her a questioning look.
"Why?"
"Because Karen… mom.. might find you here. Yeah, so get dressed and I'll umm… I'll call you later?" she said in almost a questioning tone. Brooke stood up, Haley swiveled around so as not to look.
"What are you doing?" Brooke asked.
"Oh, nothing… Just looking at this picture," Haley said, holding a picture of Karen over her shoulder for Brooke to see.
"I see. Okay, I'm dressed, so if you were appalled by my appearance maybe you wont be now," Brooke said, sounding a little hurt.
"Okay, good," Haley said. She mentally kicked herself and swiveled around.
"What?"
"Umm… I'm not appalled by your appearance… I am not appalled," Haley said. Brooke shook her head angrily and headed for the door.
"I'll uh.. I'll call you," Haley called after her. Just as Brooke opened the door, Haley's own body came through.
"Tutor-girl," Brooke said.
"Oh, umm, hey Brooke," Haley said.
"Bye," Brooke said. She then ran out of the room, letting Haley pass her on her way in.
"What the hell is going on?" Lucas (Haley's body) asked once Brooke had closed the door.
"Lucas?" asked Haley (Lucas' Body)
"Yes, I'm Lucas. Haley?"
"Yes!" exclaimed Haley.
"Do you understand this?" Lucas asked.
"Umm… NO!!" Haley exclaimed. She pulled her arms around her… Lucas' middle and leaned against the doorpost.
"Don't do that."
"What?" Haley asked.
"That… stance. It makes me look gay," he said. He shoved her hands in her pockets and slouched lightly.
"Newsflash Scott, I'm a girl," Haley said. Lucas shook his head.
"In that body you don't get to be a girl, Haley. I don't know how this happened, but it did, so now you have to act like me," Lucas said. Haley shook her head.
"I do not intend to stay like this," Haley said.
"Neither do I, but until we do switch back you have to act like me," Lucas said. Haley put her hands on Lucas' hips and rested heavily on his right leg.
"Don't do that!" Lucas said. Haley rolled her eyes.
"Fine, if I have to act like you, you have to act like me. That means tutoring people every day. Being with Nathan…"
"Whoa! There's no what I'm doing anything with Nathan," Lucas said.
"If you ruin anything with Nathan and I, I will never forgive you," Haley said.
"Fine, then you have to be with Brooke."
"Brooke!?"
"And Peyton!"
"Both? No way! At least Nathan's hot!" Haley shouted. Lucas shook his head.
"Those words will never come out of my mouth again, Haley," Lucas said adamantly.
"This is crazy. We can't be each other," Haley said.
"We're going to have to."
"Why? Why can't we just stay home until it changes back?" Haley asked. Lucas shook his head.
"You know our schedules would never let us do that."
"Well, I can't play the drums. What about the band? We have a practice this afternoon. What's Jake going to think?" Haley asked. Lucas shrugged.
"We have to do our best. I'll call you later," he said. Haley stopped him.
"Where are you going?"
"To your house. You need a shower," Lucas said.
"Don't you dare," Haley snapped. Lucas shook his head.
"Haley, despite what you may think, it's not okay to go days without showering. I need you to shower me too."
"No way! I've already seen you naked, and by the way, that was really disturbing."
"Too bad, I need a shower. Besides, there's a game tonight."
"I can't play basketball!" Haley shouted. Lucas stepped out the door and looked back
at her.
"Do your best. Just don't get me kicked off the team."
Okay, so this is the answer to a challenge, tell me what you think, because I know it's way off the wall. Totally AU.
